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Without Huggins, Crosstown Shootout alive and well

By Pat Forde
ESPN.com

Thursday, January 19, 2006

CINCINNATI -- The talk Thursday in this city was whether the Crosstown Shootout had lost its potency without Bob Huggins raging on the sideline. That talk is officially terminated. By the time resourceful Xavier had finally subdued valiant Cincinnati 73-71 in overtime -- a pitched battle in a broiling scream chamber of a gym -- the answer was in: This rivalry still sizzles, even when the King Lear of the Queen City was reduced to muted onlooker status from one of the corporate boxes in Xavier' ...

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